Habenaria.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDEX. (J.D. Hooker.) 163 
„Siem with spike 20 in. Leaves 3-5 in., membranous, upper smaller. Spike 
8 in., very slender; bracts À in., ovate-lanceolate; flowers 1 in. diam.; sepals and 
petals membranous, 1-nerved, lateral sepals deflexed ; long segments of lip 1 in.; 
spur sub 2-lobed, with a very short contracted neck; ovary small, with a thick 
dorsal ridge and terminal beak, cells parallel (tubes short upcurved ?) ; pollen grains 
few, large, glands not seen; stigmatic processes clavate; rostellum erect between 
the cells,— Closely allied to H. aristata, though with so different a spur. 
ttt Leaves few radical, or solitary and cauline. 
1 38. H. lacertifera, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 362; stem or scape stout or 
slender with few or many erect sheaths, leaves usually radical ovate or 
oblong, spike elongate few- or many-fld., bracts narrow longer than the 
Mick very small flowers, lateral sepals linear-oblong obtuse, lip equalling 
or fonger than the sepals trifid tripartite or obtusely 3-toothed, lobes or 
Cements short subequal or the lateral long, spur minute ovoid or globose. 
Pe -oglossum lacertiferum & acuminatum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 302. 
d nistylus chloranthus, Lindl. in Kew Journ. Bot. vii. (1855) 97. Gymna- 
"na ? tenuiflora, Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7055. Cheeradoplectron Spiranthes, 
chauer in Pl. Meyen. 436, t. 13 C. 
and TABLA, Naga and MuxwrPogE Hirrs, alt. 24500 ft., TENASSERIM, TAVOY 
,, RANG, Wallich —DtrsrRrs. Hong Kong. l 
acute or 6-10 n. ; Sheaths i-l in, lanceolate. Leaves few, 1-2 in., spreading, 
ovar 9 tuse. Spike 3-10 in., slender, lax- or dense-fld. ; loweribracts often 5 in. ; 
oblon, "n m., slender, erect, not beaked; sepals 1-1 in., 1-nerved, dorsal ovate- 
length of tuse ; petals variable, rather thick; lip very variable in length, and in 
anther mi obes or segments, limb with a short spur over the short broad claw; 
0 me ZAIT: cells nearly parallel, tubes O; pollinia ovoid, grains large, glands 
the base stigmatic processes small; rostellum a plicate-membrane stretched across 
oblon M the anther but not? concealing the glands. Capsule $ in., sessile, 
errs $ o 38e Both this and the following var. are found in Penang. Lindley 
tentaculata (B ‘ Nepal, Wallich,” asa habitat. I suspect that Lindley s Glossula 
filiform side (Bot. of the lip, ” of Hong Kong, is only a form of this with elongate 
vw ad es very stout, 12-18 in., leaves 3-5 by $-l in., spike very long 
One, Pp. lateral segments of lip slender exserted much longer than the middle 
` mang, Wallich, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1662, Spiranthes), Curtis. 
un Hs gracillima, Hook. f.; stem long filiform, leaves subradical 
an y linear, spike elongate, flowers few minute distant, bracts shorter 
obtuse fle ovaries, lateral sepals linear-oblong, petals broader ovate 
inflated 2 Shy, lip very short fleshy trifid lobes obtuse, spur very short 
“lobed. Cologlossum Mannii, Reichb. f. in Linnea xli. of. 
Kwa 
‘em d ILLS, alt. 45000 ft., on grassy hills, common. MUNNIPORE, Clarke. 
acuminate » in, with a few subulate sheaths. Leaves 1-3 by $i in, alternate, 
in "Dite 2-6 in. ; flowers 1 in. apart; bracts j in.; ovary 4 1n.; Sepals 
irl, Lenepy : 2 . te 
than the bea ; In shorter than the sepals, elaw as broad as and hardly shorter 
subsessile ade, midlobe rather the longest; pollinia most minute, broadly pyriform, 
On one large flat ovate (2-fid ?) gland, grains large. 
109 Sect. VI. PuvniLosmACHYa. (See p. 132.) 
or Gen Saleandra, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 263; leaves oblong obtuse 
cuneiform]. base contracted, bracts ovate, lowers 3 in. diam., lip broadly 
0 ee? obovate or obcordate, spur a short conical sac. Platanthera 
à, Lindl, in Wall. Cat. 7050; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 290. P. gale- 
x 2 
